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Mr. Philip D. Burden
P.O. Box 863,
Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks HP6 9HD,
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0) 1494 76 33 13
Email: enquiries@caburden.com
Robert Morden is arguably best known for the series of maps he produced for the first edition of Dr. Edmund Gibson’s translation of William Camden’s ‘Britannia’. Gibson (1669-1748) had first projected the work in 1692 when a Fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford. He turned to Morden (d.1703) to provide the maps. His sources are varied and are analysed by Skelton. Although the atlas ran to later editions in 1722, c.1730, 1753 and 1772 the first has always been the most desirable. A rare example in LOVELY EARLY OUTLINE COLOUR unfortunately not quite perfect. Beresiner pp. 157-60; Chubb 113; Shirley BL T.Camd 5a; Skelton 117.
CAMDEN, William
Camden's Britannia
London, 1695
Folio (410 x 255 mm.), full early calf, rebacked preserving original spine. Boards with decorative embossed blind panelling. Spine with gilt embossed title pasted red calf label. Engraved portrait of Camden by R. White with small area of loss lower left, title within double rule border, 5 (of 7) engraved general maps and 42 (of 43) double page county maps by Robert Morden all in EARLY OUTLINE COLOUR, 8 engraved plates of coins, engraved and woodcut illustrations. Lacking the general maps of Saxon and Roman Britain and that of Wiltshire. Bedfordshire with a repaired tear to bottom, Staffordshire repaired with loss, East Riding with some repair, otherwise the maps are in good condition.
Stock number: 7037
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